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Most designers learn their craft in the ateliers of more seasoned masters, but shoe designer Christian Louboutin found his calling as a 17-year-old apprentice in the dressing rooms of Paris' famous cabaret the Folies Berg�re. "I would watch the girls going up and down the stairs with these very heavy headdresses on, and they never looked at their shoes," he says. "That's where I learned that shoes are all about posture and proportion...
...Downey was born in New York City's Greenwich Village, the son of an underground filmmaker and an actress. They divorced when he was 13. Downey was acting in his father's films-and partaking in his father's drugs-before he hit his teens. He learned his craft by osmosis. "I did the entire Sanford Meisner process just by hanging around and smoking weed in the stairways with my friends who had just gotten back from class," Downey says. "They'd tell me the exercises. It seemed like inevitably they wound up screaming and crying-screaming at each other...
Asked what brought him to psychology, Gilbert’s cheeky answer is “a bus.” Striving to improve his craft, the struggling writer traveled to a local community college to enroll in creative writing classes. Upon arrival, however, he discovered that the writing classes were full. “It was a long bus ride so I asked them ‘Well, what’s open?’ and they said ‘Gosh, psychology is.’ And I thought, ‘Psychology has something...
...latter is the echo of the old guard—a blistering, electroshock guitar blast virtually untouched by Danger Mouse. Quite frankly, it’s all the better for being left alone.But that’s the exchange “Attack & Release” makes: innovative song craft for raw power. The band is arguably past its creative zenith, but it’s a relief that a necessary progression forward took place before another album in the fashion of “Modern Times” left them totally inert. Danger Mouse brings new ears...
From there, our hired driver (hey, you can't drink this much and drive) took Kerkmans and me one town over to Lyons, where we parked in a strip mall to drink at Oskar Blues, a brewery--restaurant-country bar that is one of the few craft breweries that can their beer, claiming it stays fresher than it does in a bottle because light never gets in (a New York Times panel of critics named Oskar Blues' Dale's Pale Ale its favorite American pale ale). Oskar's sells a beer-flavored lip balm and some very intense beers. That...